"Happy Valley" documentary about Penn State
I know that Petersen isn't Joe Pa but they both tout the same sort of moral/ethical ideals as being what their programs were/are about. If tomorrow I was to find out that Petersen had known about any child abuse, let alone abuse that was enabled by the UW football program, and didn't say anything about it I would say send that piece of shit to prison(and kill him for all I care). I'm also not sure I could remain a UW fan knowing that the football coaching staff, athletic director, and president of the university were complicit in covering up the whole situation for over a decade, a decade in which the predator was allowed to use his connections with the team to lure in more victims.
I guess it kind of put into perspective how much we fucking love college football...... maybe too much.
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Are you actually Todd turner?ToddTurnerLIVES said:I just watched the first half on Netflix. Tons of great footage from before, during and after the events of Jerry Sandusky and how the Penn State community views the whole situation. What really struck me is how many Penn State fans stick up for Paterno and down-play his role in the incident. They honestly feel like victims and that the NCAA was unfair to them.
I know that Petersen isn't Joe Pa but they both tout the same sort of moral/ethical ideals as being what their programs were/are about. If tomorrow I was to find out that Petersen had known about any child abuse, let alone abuse that was enabled by the UW football program, and didn't say anything about it I would say send that piece of shit to prison(and kill him for all I care). I'm also not sure I could remain a UW fan knowing that the football coaching staff, athletic director, and president of the university were complicit in covering up the whole situation for over a decade, a decade in which the predator was allowed to use his connections with the team to lure in more victims.
I guessss it kind of put into perspective how much we fucking love college football...... maybe too much. -
Thanks for stating the obvious, spoonbagSpoonieLuv said:
Are you actually Todd turner?ToddTurnerLIVES said:I just watched the first half on Netflix. Tons of great footage from before, during and after the events of Jerry Sandusky and how the Penn State community views the whole situation. What really struck me is how many Penn State fans stick up for Paterno and down-play his role in the incident. They honestly feel like victims and that the NCAA was unfair to them.
I know that Petersen isn't Joe Pa but they both tout the same sort of moral/ethical ideals as being what their programs were/are about. If tomorrow I was to find out that Petersen had known about any child abuse, let alone abuse that was enabled by the UW football program, and didn't say anything about it I would say send that piece of shit to prison(and kill him for all I care). I'm also not sure I could remain a UW fan knowing that the football coaching staff, athletic director, and president of the university were complicit in covering up the whole situation for over a decade, a decade in which the predator was allowed to use his connections with the team to lure in more victims.
I guessss it kind of put into perspective how much we fucking love college football...... maybe too much. -
Peterson is a terrible comp because he hasn't done shit for UW. Saying you would turn on him in two seconds if he was involved in a Pedo State type scandal is like being against bullying. No shit man.ToddTurnerLIVES said:I just watched the first half on Netflix. Tons of great footage from before, during and after the events of Jerry Sandusky and how the Penn State community views the whole situation. What really struck me is how many Penn State fans stick up for Paterno and down-play his role in the incident. They honestly feel like victims and that the NCAA was unfair to them.
I know that Petersen isn't Joe Pa but they both tout the same sort of moral/ethical ideals as being what their programs were/are about. If tomorrow I was to find out that Petersen had known about any child abuse, let alone abuse that was enabled by the UW football program, and didn't say anything about it I would say send that piece of shit to prison(and kill him for all I care). I'm also not sure I could remain a UW fan knowing that the football coaching staff, athletic director, and president of the university were complicit in covering up the whole situation for over a decade, a decade in which the predator was allowed to use his connections with the team to lure in more victims.
I guess it kind of put into perspective how much we fucking love college football...... maybe too much.
A much better comp would have been Don James, had he never been sanctioned and stayed at UW another 20 years, most of them highly successful, and then it came out that Lambo was more than just a wife beater. You're kidding yourself if you don't think a lot of UW fans would have rushed to defend DJ (ILTCHDJ), and that no matter how much you hate abuse you probably would have had some conflicted feelings at the very least. -
The PSU cult has been well-documented. It's incredibly disturbing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences -
This.Gladstone said:The PSU cult has been well-documented. It's incredibly disturbing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cult_of_Personality_and_Its_Consequences
I'm normally not a big fan of the HAMMER! but I think that Pedo State should have had its foosball program nuked from space because of the institutional involvement that enabled Sandusky's abuses -
Fuck perspective
College football coaches that win big gain a cult of personality?
Even Ballbag didn't need to state that obvious bit of data -
To be fair, weren't those kids asking for it?
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At least we aren't Penn state
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Peterson is a terrible comp because he hasn't done shit for UW. Saying you would turn on him in two seconds if he was involved in a Pedo State type scandal is like being against bullying. No shit man.
Yeah, I know. I was too young to remember if Don James was revered morally or ethically or if people loved him simply because he won.
A much better comp would have been Don James, had he never been sanctioned and stayed at UW another 20 years, most of them highly successful, and then it came out that Lambo was more than just a wife beater. You're kidding yourself if you don't think a lot of UW fans would have rushed to defend DJ (ILTCHDJ), and that no matter how much you hate abuse you probably would have had some conflicted feelings at the very least.
The whole Petersen comparison was because of the moral aspects of his program. How someone who claims to do it "the right way" and is then found out to be a piece of shit and is not immediately reviled is beyond me. Not only was he a pedo-enabler, he peddled bull shit his entire career. -
Winning is equated with character and morality in our culture. James was revered for winning and was ascribed moral character traits because of that winning. UW liked to brag how they won the right way, a fucktarded bit of bullshit that they ended up taking too seriously when it turns out we won like anyone else by buying players and coddling them through school to keep them eligible.
As we used to say on the old podcast, win enough games and you can run naked through the streets.
I don't recall James being overtly moral, but it was no secret that he was a good Christian man, as the saying goes. I don't think anyone knows if he had any demons or skeletons.
It's all part of the myth. If you buy into the myth it is hard to break free of it. Half brains were formed under the banner of all we care about is winning. Fuck all that other nonsense
